Comments on: Foley Setup? – Part XVII – Another Page?

By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:23:28 +0000

Mac,
Have you seen this (via commenter Merlin at AJ’s)?
The page’s parents emailed the Foley emails to Trandahl!! So there’s another copy floating around. Maybe that’s the copy we’re looking at!

http://www.goedwardsville.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17296433&BRD

By: owl

owl — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:11:54 +0000

Still, I take my hat off to the media and Democratic Party. Indeed, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, I take my pants off to them. It is a remarkable achievement to have transformed, in little more than a week, the GOP into the Catholic Diocese of Boston with Speaker Hastert as Cardinal Law and the page program as the massed ranks of 7-year-old altar boys. What an awesome force the Dems would be if only the ruthless skill and cunning that went into this operation could be applied to, say, national security.

Steyn….how can this man sum it all up in 4 sentences?

Wonder what would happen if Steyn gave permission to have his article stay on top of all blogs that agreed with him? At the same time for a few days? Someone needs to figure a way to put this back at the MSM…in their faces. Mark Steyn said it much better, but I have been saying for 4 years that we do NOT have to worry about Dems. They have nothing to offer and have become so French. We have to find a better way to block the Dem’s rocket launchers(MSM).

By: perdogg

perdogg — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:23:04 +0000

Mac,

I am not clear about Aol’s IM. When I was in College in 1996, AOL did have IM. I am not sure what IM capabilities people are talking about.

I remember there were chat rooms and IMs on AOL in 1995/1996.

I am not believing anything a page says until I see the IMs.

By: clarice

clarice — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:06:00 +0000

At last Mark Steyn:
“In London, sex scandals come along every other week. You name it, British parliamentarians do it: three-in-a-bed, auto-erotic asphyxiation, gay teen flagellation, getting your toes sucked while wearing the soccer kit of Chelsea Football Club. But at least at Westminster, sex scandals require actual sex. That the governing party of the world’s only superpower could be felled by one creepy pervert’s masturbatory e-mails and IMs is an event historians will marvel at. Granted that the Roman Empire in its death throes got hung up on gay sex, the American hyperpower seems set to be the first to collapse over gay non-sex.

And no, I’m not a “typical right-wing pedophile apologist” excusing Foley. But, in case you haven’t noticed, he’s gone. He quit quicker than his instant message. And, true, he’s since done the usual contemptible redemption shtick, announcing he’s going into alcohol rehab, etc., when the reality is he’d be a better man if he drank more and IMed teens about the size of their wedding tackle less. And yes, he’ll get a book deal, just like New Jersey’s revolting ex-governor. But no one will buy the book — and besides, what do you want? When a member of the House of Lords went abroad after a homosexual scandal, King George V is said to have remarked, “Good God, I thought fellows like that shot themselves.” It may, indeed, be a less revolting spectacle for a chap to take a tumbler of whiskey and a loaded revolver into his study than to go on “Oprah” and bore on about his personal demons, abusive father, etc., etc. But we live in different times. Foley’s history; he’s the first footnote in history to a page in history. So the only question now is whether there is any larger issue here worth spending 10 minutes on.

And the answer to that is obvious. This was a honey trap (as they used to say in the Cold War) designed to leverage one peripheral figure’s squalid fantasies into political opportunity. It’s as predictable as the leaves falling from the trees, except that it only occurs every other autumn. Still, I take my hat off to the media and Democratic Party. Indeed, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, I take my pants off to them. It is a remarkable achievement to have transformed, in little more than a week, the GOP into the Catholic Diocese of Boston with Speaker Hastert as Cardinal Law and the page program as the massed ranks of 7-year-old altar boys. What an awesome force the Dems would be if only the ruthless skill and cunning that went into this operation could be applied to, say, national security.

But I very much doubt, despite the expertise with which the sheep have been rounded up and set baa-ing, that Showtime at the Foley Bergere will pay off in November. ”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/87789,CST-EDT-STEYN08.article